Bay Curious Lightning Round: Inspiration for AT-ATs, the ‘Tenderloin’ and Popeye’s Voice
This week the Bay Curious podcast is celebrating our one-year anniversary with a lightning round of questions and answers!
Is it true that George Lucas was inspired to create the AT-AT because of the cranes at the Port of Oakland?
No. Sadly, this is not true.
George Lucas told the San Francisco Chronicle’s Peter Hartlaub, “That’s a myth. That is definitely a myth.”
Hartlaub also followed up with Phil Tippett, the stop-motion animator who oversaw production of the AT-AT sequence. Tippett allows for a small chance that somewhere in the process someone looked at the cranes, but added that the…
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